Cadence

Lead Software Engineer

India · Work style not stated · Full time

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EmployerCadence
LocationIndia
Work styleWork style not stated
Employment typeFull time
Employer posted22 May 2025

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer

Grade: T3

Experience: 4-6 Years

Location: Noida

Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality. Cadence customers are the world’s most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, aerospace industrial and health.

The Cadence Advantage

The opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in an environment that encourages you to be creative, innovative, and to make an impact.
Cadence’s employee-friendly policies focus on the physical and mental well-being of employees, career development, providing opportunities for learning, and celebrating success in recognition of specific needs of the employees.
The unique “One Cadence – One Team” culture promotes collaboration within and across teams to ensure customer success
Multiple avenues of learning and development available for employees to explore as per their specific requirement and interests
You get to work with a diverse team of passionate, dedicated, and talented individuals who go above and beyond for our customers, our communities, and each other—every day.

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Job Summary:

R&D support of application and product engineers for customer problems and requests. This consists of problem analysis, debugging and fixing, or the development of new features and enhancements to improve synthesis results with respect to timing, area and power.
This job will suit applicants looking to continue their software engineering career in an intellectually stimulating and challenging problem domain. There is a significant research element to the work that Cadence does that is truly innovative; we don’t know what the answers are when we start out!
Mentoring and support will be provided to the successful candidate to both enable contribution to the large EDA problem domain and to develop their programming skills into professional software engineering skills.
Each day with Cadence offers exciting opportunities to create a better, more connected world. We are leading the charge to solve technology’s toughest challenges. Working at Cadence means working alongside the industry’s brightest people and innovating for the biggest, most innovative companies around the globe.

Experience and Technical Skills required:

Development of data analysis and debugging tools for performance analysis, research and development of data driven optimizations of geometric and topological operations for physical verification applications, troubleshooting and debugging physical verification software on large complex databases, collaborative development and testing of advanced functionality with multiple geographically distributed teams.
The role requires a strong programming (C++ and/or python) and software engineering skills, analytical and problem-solving skills, an ability and interest to learn and adapt to changing requirements and technologies, and in possession of strong interpersonal and communication skills, as well as a collaborative and growth mindset.

Educational Qualification:

B.E/BTech/ME/MTech. in EE/ECE/CS or equivalent

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